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Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology

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Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology

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Educators use the Moodle web application to create effective online learning sites. Creating such learning environments that suit Design and Technology subjects requires understanding and implementation of both basic and advanced Moodle features.This book takes a detailed look at Moodle features with examples of how to fully support the Design and Technology curricula using Moodle. It will guide you to incorporate specific modules and blocks to enhance learning as well as allow detailed tracking of performance by using formative and summative assessment tools with ease.We start with setting up a very basic Moodle course for Design and Technology, and then set up some basic resources and some interactive material. You will customize your own courses and create a course for each of the key areas of the DT subjects and add material to them. We will create some basic reporting and assessment tools and enhance the look of the course. We will use Moodle's detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your student s ' learning progress in activities from an assignment to an offline activity. Then we will support students in designing a product or trying a new recipe in food technology in market research to find out exactly what the public wants in relation to their product, by designing a questionnaire. We will allow product design or resistant material students use the HTML features of the questionnaire module to incorporate images into the questions to make it clearer to respondents what it is they are trying to make and sell.We will allow students in construction to gather and organize their research material in a great deal of detail and also allow them to better understand their target market and the materials used in their construction through detailed questioning. We will allow food technology students to discuss and receive constructive feedback on food products that contribute to health issues that will enable them to make informed decisions and therefore better quality products. Then we explore several components within Moodle's core functionality and some third-party sources to display the progress of the student's work and development. We then have an overview of the different design portfolios available. Finally we look at additional ways to enhance the teaching and learning of D ' T with Moodle using third-party modules and add-ons.
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Chapter 2. Organizing Information using Moodle Modules

In Design Technology, perhaps more than any other subject in educational settings, students need to be very aware of their market. Whether they are designing a product, or trialing a new recipe in Food Technology, the clear purpose for this activity is the possibility of some future sales. In light of this, we will take a detailed look at using specific modules in Moodle to support students research into finding out exactly what the public wants, in relation to their product, and how best to determine how successful it might be. This will then inform their overall design brief in a better way.

Coupled with this understanding of the market, one of the key areas of technology that is central to all of the design-based subjects addressed in this book is the clear understanding of materials. Students are required to build up a detailed and organized set of knowledge and evidence to show that they know what materials are used in their subject...

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